xi, 372 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references

1. Laying a foundation for studying race, gender, and the media -- pt. I. Audiences -- 2. Considerations of media effects -- 2.1. The social psychology of stereotypes : implications for media audiences / Bradley W. Gorham -- 2.2. All I really needed to know (about beauty) I learned by kindergarten : a cultivation analysis / Susannah R. Stern -- 2.3. Global media/local meanings / Larry Nathan Strelitz -- 2.4. Body image, mass media, self-concept / Michelle A. Wolf, Sandy Nichols, Dave Decelle -- 3. Audience reception, use, and interpretation of media content -- 3.1. "Why don't you act your color?" : preteen girls, identity, and popular music / Pamela J. Tracy -- 3.2. Consuming ethnic media, constructing ethnic identities, shaping communities : a case study of Greek Cypriots in London / Myria Georgiou -- 3.3. "Women who look like me" : cultural identity and reader responses to African American romance novels / Gwendolyn E. Osborne -- 3.4. Arguing over images : Native American mascots and race / C. Richard King -- 3.5. The relevance of race in interpreting a TV news story / Rebecca Ann Lind -- 3.6. Crossing the lines of gender and color : viewers respond to Fires in the mirror / Rob Baum -- 3.7. Bamboozled? : audience reactions to a Spike Lee film / Dwight E. Brooks, George L. Daniels

pt. II. Content -- 4. General considerations and overviews of media content -- 4.1. "The more you subtract, the more you add" : cutting girls down to size in advertising / Jean Kilbourne -- 4.2. Favoritism and identity in the mediation of sports / Susan Tyler Eastman -- 4.3. Interpreting media representation at the intersections of white and Christian supremacy / Jaideep Singh -- 4.4. Fears of difference and miscegenation : pro-segregation arguments from the 1950s to today / Thomas A. Moriarty -- 5. Journalistic issues : news, public affairs, sports content -- 5.1. Racialized portrayals of reporters and criminals on local television news / Travis L. Dixon -- 5.2. The face of the front page : a content analysis of U.S. newspapers / Cynthia M. Lont, M. Junior Bridge -- 5.3. "Outwhiting the whites" : an examination of the persistence of Asian American model minority discourse / Chiung Hwang Chen -- 5.4. Race, gender, and the O.J. Simpson case : how the media "framed" O.J. / Tom Grochowski -- 5.5. Framing feminism / Rebecca Ann Lind, Colleen Salo -- 5.6. Gender and sport media : sexual difference and SI for kids / Marie Hardin [and others] -- 6. Film -- 6.1. Race, hierarchy, and hyenaphobia in The lion king / Naomi R. Rockler -- 6.2. Destructive and constructive characterizations of women in Disney's Mulan / Katherine E. Bartnett -- 6.3. Savages, swine, and buffoons : Hollywood stereotypes of the Japanese, Germans, and Italians during World War II / Ralph R. Donald -- 6.4. Hip-hop sees no color : an exploration of privilege and power in Save the last dance / Leslie A. Grinner -- 7. Entertainment television -- 7.1. Color TV? : diversity in prime-time TV / Joan L. Conners -- 7.2. Talking about racism on the Oprah Winfrey show / Janice Peck -- 7.3. Masculinity and race in media : the case of the homicide detective / Erin MacDonald -- 8. Music -- 8.1. Eminem in mainstream public discourse : whiteness and the appropriation of Black masculinity / Jon B. Martin, Gust A. Yep -- 8.2. From "rico suave" to "livin' la vida loca" : a decade of evolution for Latino pop star images / Fernando Delgado, Bernadette Marie Calafell -- 8.3. "Music to riot by" : calls to racial violence in the Oi! music scene / Jody M. Roy -- 9. New media -- 9.1. Pixel pinups : images of women in video games / Nina B. Huntemann -- 9.2. Cyber-hate and the disinhibiting effects of anti-gay speech on the Internet / Cynthia A. Cooper -- 10. Representations of male-female relationships -- 10.1. Relationship self-help books, social expectations, and feminism / Felicia J. Slattery -- 10.2. Pornography in a pornographic culture : eroticizing domination and subordination / Robert Jensen, Gail Dines

pt. III. Production -- 11. Producing documentary and entertainment programming -- 11.1. "Who is the market for this film?" : the politics of distributing Mixing Nia / Ralina Landwehr Joseph -- 11.2. Barricaded intersections : Any day now and the struggle to examine ethnicity and gender / Amanda D. Lotz -- 11.3. Locating butch in Out of bounds : female football players, expressions of masculinity, and participatory cinema / Cynthia Conti -- 11.4. The Tom Joyner morning show : activist urban radio in the age of consolidation / George L. Daniels, Dwight E. Brooks -- 12. Blurring the lines : the audience as producer -- 12.1. "Are you a 'real' female?" : gender and authenticity in Asheron's call / Nora Madison Thompson, Jonathan T. Church -- 12.2. Performing masculinity, revisioning sexuality : adult Internet video sites / Marjorie Kibby, Brigid Costello -- 13. Employment issues : working in and for the media -- 13.1. The changing status of women in television and radio news / Vernon A. Stone -- 13.2. Women in British broadcasting : an examination of perceived opportunities and constraints / Rebecca Ann Lind -- 13.3. The wedding march : from elite to egalitarian / Tina Lesher -- 14. Epilogue : concluding thoughts and additional resources

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